Hay-carrier



(No Model.)

J. E. PORTER.

. HAY GARRIER. No. 333,545. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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WITNESSES Mil/U0 B h I make use of such timber for suspended tracks UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH E. PORTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAY-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,545, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed October 2, 1885.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH E. PORTER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the construction of apparatus for using hay-carriers within barns or other structures, farmers and those whose business is such as to require the use of hay-carriers generally as may be at hand or can be conveniently obtained, Such timber is of various degrees of thickness, and consequently difliculty is oftentimes experienced in obtaining haycarriers or making the same so that they will run easily on such suspended tracks and operate successfully with devices secured to the same.

It is the object of my invention to make the travelers adjustable vertically, so that they can travel on board tracks of any degree of thickness, and this I accomplish by journaling said travelers in the ends of verticallyadjustable hangers, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a hay-carrier in position upon a track, and showing my improvements thereon, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

Reference being had to the drawings, A represents a hay carrier of any shape or construction, designed to travel on the suspended track.

B B represent hangers, (a pair of which are secured opposite and facing each other at each end of the machine,) and in their upper extremity they are provided with bearings for the journals of the travelers b b. At their lower ends they are provided with suitable apertures for the passage through them of a bolt, 0. This bolt passes through vertical slots 0 in the contiguous sides of the carrier, and has a sleeve, D, surrounding its barrel between the sides, so that when the said hangers are secured to the carrier by said bolt and a nut,

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d, the tightening of the same will not cause the said sides to be drawn together. In the drawings these arms are bent inward at a point just above where the bolt 0 passes through them to secure the carrier; but this bend may be omitted or may be made more prominent without departing from thespirit of my invention.

In some carriers the travelers are journaled in the upper corners of the sides. In this event an arm or verticallyadj ustable plate may be substituted, the operation of which is substantially the same as that of the hangers hereinbefore described. Such a construction, however, or any substantially like it, I claim as coming within the spirit of my invention.

These hangers B B may be secured to the inner surface of the sides of the carrier in substantially the same manner as when secured to the outside without departing from my invention, the principle of which is the vertical adjustment of the travelers either by means of hangers or otherwise, so as to conform to the thickness of the suspended track.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a hay-carrier and vertically-adj ustable travelers, of a track, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a hay carrier, travelers,and vertically-adj ustable hangers, in the upper end of which said travelers are journaled, of a suspended track.

3. The combination, with a hay carrier having vertical slots therein, as described, travelers,and vertically-adjustable hangers, in the upper end of which said travelers are journaled, and which are provided with bolt-holes in their lower ends, of a suspended track.

4. The combination, with a hay carrier having vertical slots 0 c therein, as described, travelers b b, hangers B B, having holes in their lower ends, bolts 0 G, and sleeve D D, of the suspended track, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereunto affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH E. PORTER.

Vitnesses:

JAMES H. COYNE, FRANK D. THOMASON. 

